After installation of a Subaru 2.2L engine, within the first 10 miles of
driving after the conversion, I achieved 105 MPH ( vehicle was willing to go
faster) in my '91 Carat automatic on Interstate 79 just south of Zelienople,
PA. At that precise moment, I thought about what a deer jumping out on the
highway would do to me and the van, and have never, ever, done it again.

Dave Milo

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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of
Andrew Grebneff
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 7:54 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Top Speed

>Keep in mind that with enough horsepower you can make a barn door fly
>flatways. ( old aviation-ism, applicable here)
>
>125 mph in a Vanagon??? .....Sheeesh!!! You really like living out
>there where the "Winds of Limbo Roar", right??

I've had 112mph out of mine (3.8 Holden V6) several times, and it was
rock-steady.
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Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut

HUMANITY: THE ULTIMATE VON NEUMANN MACHINE

DEMOCRACY: RULE BY THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR

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